Heading: (Hockney, David, illustrator)
Author: Posner, David
Title: A Rake's Progress: A Poem in Five Sections
Place Published: London
Publisher:Lion and Unicorn Press
Date Published: [1967]
Description:

[82] pp. With 16 two color half-tone plates after David Hockney. 36.7x38.5 cm (14½x15¼"), black cloth backed with a plastic strip, lettered on cover in grey, orange illustrated endpapers.

"These etchings were begun in London in September 1961 after a visit to the United States. My intention was to make eight plates, keeping the titles originally invented by Hogarth, but moving the setting to New York...Altogether I made about thirty-five plates of which nineteen were abandoned, thus leaving these sixteen in the published set..." - Hockney, Lion and Unicorn Press commissioned David Posner to write a poem on A Rake's Progress which was to be a work in its own right and not necessarily an illustration to David Hockney's prints.

Light soiling to cover, a touch of corner wear; hints of sunning to edges, one small fore-edge tear; about near fine.